Tech People

Computer jockey: What is fisting? And what do you think it means when a man is emailing you pictures of naked boys?

25 West 4th Street
New York, NY

Tech manager: The sales manager cannot take that complaint call because he is preparing to go to a CRM meeting.
Tech supervisor: What is CRM?
Tech manager: Customer relations management.
Tech supervisor: Can you see the irony in that?
Tech manager: Well, they are having this meeting so that this sort of problem doesn’t happen.
Tech supervisor: Can you see the irony in that, too?

Houston, Texas

Tech #1: Is Victor* here?
Tech #2: No–if I'm here it means Victor's in Chapel Hill.
Tech #1: Oh, I was going to tell him there's a butterfly outside.
Tech #2: A butterfly?
Tech #1: I know how he likes them.
Tech #2: Is it big?
Tech #1: It's a good one.
Tech #2: I'd like to go look.
(they both leave)

North Carolina

IT dude: There's a lot of balls floating around, and I just grab the ones I can.

Seattle, Washington

Programmer #1: Can you kill the parent without killing the child nodes?
Programmer #2: I don’t think so.
Sales guy: It’s always good to get rid of the witnesses.

Boston, Massachusetts

Overheard by: sales guy’s neighbor

IT assisting in HR: Yeah, I just got back from CES. They had the adult entertainment convention on the floor above. [name of pornstar] walked by and I told her she looked shorter in person than on film.
Employee, laughing: I can't believe this conversation is happening in HR.

Sonora, California

Overheard by: Breezy

Computer guy: I wonder what it is that makes it feel so damn cold in this building sometimes?
Graphics dude: Maybe it’s the temperature.

Dyess Air Force Base
Texas

Overheard by: Michael Philippus

IT guy: You know why sardines are so good? Because their bones are young and soft.

Mesquite, Nevada

Male IT worker: Body glitter is not that hard to wash off.

Richmond, Virginia

Techie, answering phone: Hello, this is Brenda*…No, I wasn’t just speaking to someone on the phone… I’m positive; I work in IT so I rarely talk to anyone.

100 Sylvan Road
Woburn, Massachusetts

Overheard by: June Bug